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Daniel Brody was sitting on his toilet when a liquid from the upstairs bathroom began leaking on his head. He hopes it was just water. It took his landlord about a week to fix the leak, he said. Landlord issues are just one of the problems students experience in the University Heights.
Four years ago when Kyle McJury was pledging to his fraternity, the freshman would fill his free time cleaning out yards and shoveling driveways for the elderly and disabled residents who couldn't do it themselves. Today, McJury, a senior finance major and vice president of community service for UB's Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa chapter participates in various community service projects with the fraternity. Founded in 1925, Delta Sigma Pi, a national fraternity, is the university's largest professional business fraternity that prides itself on its involvement in the community.
Brett Hull just skated through the crease and buried the Sabres in game seven. Mike Tolbert got his third touchdown of the day on his third carry - burying your fantasy team to last place.
Women dressed in flowing skirts danced to the beat and men with canes stood at a normally packed venue in downtown Buffalo.
Residents of 94 Tyler St. - a house owned by University Heights landlord Jeremy Dunn - ripped out the smoke detectors, broke doors and shot a potato gun in the house since signing their lease in June, according to Gary Ziolkowski, chief building inspector for the City of Buffalo. The students told Ziolkowski it was because they were bored this summer.
For 54 hours straight, students will pitch, plan and design. Some will succeed and some will break under the pressure, all in hopes of winning first prize from a group of successful entrepreneurs - the very people they one day hope to join. Buffalo's Startup Weekend 2012 is a 54-hour event that starts on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
During Thanksgiving, winter and spring break, most UB students leave campus and go home. Campus Dining and Shops closes 35 shops.
Shana Wirechowski thought showing her parents a room full of human brains was the best way to introduce them to UB. On Wednesday, Wierchowski, a first-year medical student, toured the Museum of Neuroanatomy with her parents.
It was still two hours from dawn's break as a lone car rolled into the gas station. The warm, dark air surrounded 49-year-old Thomas Bittner, associate professor of philosophy and geography at UB, who stepped out of his vehicle to get coffee. This was his morning ritual before heading off to photograph the ghostly remains of what was once Buffalo's life source - Silo City.
After his third semester as an aerospace engineering major at UB, Yaron Bernstein had an epiphany: he was not following his dream.
A carbon monoxide leak. Faulty electrical wiring. A ceiling on the verge of collapse. Missing landlords. In the last week, five students have had to evacuate their University Heights homes. During Saturday's housing blitz, a student living on Heath Street left her house so Buffalo City inspectors could immediately fix a potentially fatal carbon monoxide leak. Last Wednesday, four students vacated their Englewood Avenue home so inspectors could fix faulty electric wiring, which could have caused electrocution or a fire. In all of these instances, the landlords are to blame and hard to reach. On Saturday, Dan Ryan, director of off-campus student relations; Gary Ziolkowski, a City of Buffalo chief building inspector; and two other city building inspectors evaluated the homes on Heath Street.
Twenty-five years ago, on her way home from work, Geri Hens had no clue she was living her last day as an outdoor sciences college professor. Her life changed in a split second. She was hit by a drunk driver. Shesuffered injuries to her neck and back, and it was in the hospital that she had an epiphany.
Tyler Loucks, a 21-year-old senior geography major, was still listed in critical condition at ECMC at 11:30 p.m.
On Wednesday afternoon students, faculty, and family members gathered in Baird Recital Hall to honor professors who have gone above the typical expectations of their students.
After suspense had built around the Buffalo area for over a month, former Nichols star Will Regan officially signed a letter of intent to transfer to UB on Tuesday. Regan, the biggest recruit to come out of Buffalo in recent memory, graduated in 2010 and committed to the University of Virginia.
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